din
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It won’t hush the din, but there’s nothing like mutual loathing to foster a sense of community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Everyone knew their fellow New Yorkers needed a bit of a break, and for a short period, the usual din of the city calmed to a whisper.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
But away from the din at the crammed Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, a quieter labor-management battle is unfolding over who controls the sport’s money and how much should go to players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
But it's not the din of a 1.6-litre V6 turbo hybrid engine which has caused the alarm.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
In the din of different languages echoing in the room, she hears a voice behind her speaking words she understands.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court, exhort or contort.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The sound of the machinery dins in my ears.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst
I The shadows sit and stand about its door Like uninvited guests and poor; And all the long, hot summer day The grating locust dins its roundelay In one old sycamore.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
The poet dins the chastity of his mistress into his readers' heads until the readers in self-defence are driven to say, "Sir, did any one doubt it?"
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
I’ve been oppressed by all these facts and evidence that dinned against My simple claim that I am not more sinning than I’m sinned against.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
Ever since my Sunday School days I've had it dinned into my ears that I'm a Child of God, that I'm made in His Image.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Starting from that, Dr. Laing sees the schizophrenic as an individual who has had trouble fitting into the social concepts dinned into him from infancy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Stauffenberg's bomb was no time bomb, but it dinned into Adolf Hitler's ears what time it was on history's relentless clock.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They had been dinned into her these past few months, the thousand details of a new admission.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Guests enter through a private side door and they’re met with a somewhat full-sized kitchen and dinning room.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
In June, we dragged the tables outside and set up the planter boxes for outdoor dinning.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2020
The house had an unfinished quality, and chickens strutted through the dinning room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
Haven't eaten in the dinning room in years, no need to spend that kind of money when the dishes in the tavern are so terrific.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2016
Three words, endlessly repeated, dinning themselves hour after hour into receptive brains.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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